If you have ever enjoyed the popular music of the past six decades, this book of musician portraits by Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, Bruce Davidson, and other leading ...(Read More)

In March 1864 Major General George Meade reorganized the Army of the Potomac, scattering the soldiers of the famed Hooker Brigade among unfamiliar units. When a small band of officers protested that ...(Read More)

When she heard architect Secundino Fernandez vividly describing the Havana he left behind as a child, Rosemary Wells was inspired to find him and tell his story. Young Dino is in love with his city, ...(Read More)

Originally published in 1996, this collection of short "memoirs" blurs the lines between biography and fiction as Whitbread Award and James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner Paul Theroux imagines what ...(Read More)

From old Peking to pre-war Shanghai, this slipcased set of five volumes explores diverse cultural aspects that are intrinsically and essentially Chinese. Heavily illustrated with captioned photos and ...(Read More)

This is an outstanding guide to 58 national parks—from Acadia in Maine to Saguaro in Arizona, from Hawai'i Volcanoes to Denali in Alaska—illustrated with 375 color photos and 80 National Geographic ...(Read More)

Nugget and Fang have been best friends for as long as either of them can remember, playing and swimming together, and life is pretty much perfect. But when Nugget (a minnow) goes to school, he learns ...(Read More)

As a 14-year-old who just moved to upstate New York in 1968, with no friends and a louse for a brother, Doug Swieteck has all the cards stacked against him, in this novel for readers 10 to 14 by the ...(Read More)

Have you ever heard a secret—a really big secret, which you promised not to tell—and after you knew, you just had to tell someone? That's what happened when Molly told Olive a secret, in this ...(Read More)

In November 1863, 38 men of the Minnesota Ninth Regiment responded to a fugitive slave's desperate plea by holding a train at gunpoint and liberating his family, who were being shipped off to be ...(Read More)

This study of orientalist, translator, and poet Arthur Waley (1889–1966) and his Japanese translations provides a provocative examination of Waley's contribution to 20th-century English literature ...(Read More)